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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Credit market outstandings at end	Demand for credit during	Other changes during	Credit market outstandings at end
		Sep Qtr 2009	Dec Qtr 2009	Dec Qtr 2009	Dec Qtr 2009
NON-FINANCIAL DOMESTIC SECTORS		$b	$b	$b	$b
Non-financial corporations
	Investment funds	127.9	1.5	-4.7	124.7
	Other private	1 829.5	-1.8	27.3	1 855.0
	National public	2.1	-	-	2.1
	State and local public	87.5	3.4	-	90.9
General government
	National	112.4	14.2	-1.2	125.4
	State and local	67.5	-0.2	-	67.2
Households		1 352.1	28.0	0.8	1 380.9
Total		3 579.1	44.9	22.2	3 646.3
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

Total demand for credit

Credit market outstandings

• Total credit market outstandings of the domestic non-financial sectors at 31 December 2009 was $3,646.3b, an increase of $67.2b from the previous quarter. Demand for credit during the quarter was $44.9b and valuation increases were $22.2b.
• Demand for credit was down $4.6b from the previous quarter, driven by decreased demand by state and local general government (down $11.6b) and other private non-financial corporations (down $6.3b). This was offset by an increase in demand by national general government (up $10.8b) and households (up $3b).

• Private non-financial investment funds raised a net $1.5b. Other private non-financial corporations repaid a net $1.8b. There were net share issuance of $27.1b, this was offset by repayment of loans of $30.1b.
• State and local public non-financial corporation raised $3.4b, mainly through loans.

• National general government issued bonds of $15.0b.

• Households raised a net $28.0b during the December quarter 2009, up $3.0b from the September quarter 2009 estimate of $25.0b.